A photo of the section in the BM would be helpful for people to understand the structure, or of the reconstruction at the Peat Moors Centre.
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Nearby was the Peat Moors Centre which closed down in the autumn of 2009 . The prehistoric Sweet Track and Post Track run from the village southwards towards Shapwick.
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This has been a significant industry for many years in the surrounding villages of Meare, Walton on Westhay Moor, and is remembered at the Peat Moors Centre at Westhay.
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As one travels further north, especially north-east towards the peat moors, the proportion of grassland steadily increases as the soil becomes poorer and wetter to the peat bog.
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Westhay Heath, which is managed by the Somerset Wildlife Trust is an area of tall fen vegetation containing scrub, marshy grassland, ditches and small ponds in the heart of the peat moors on the Somerset Levels.
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The summit plateau has a trig point, small tarns on the peat moor, and, visible from the valley floor, a beacon at its eastern end, part of the large network built to warn of a Spanish invasion.
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The Carboniferous coal beds provided much of the fuel for power generation during the Industrial Revolution . ( Another natural source of fuel in the area was peat, the neighbouring peat moors having started forming around 10, 000 years ago ).
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The main Museum of Somerset along with the Somerset Military Museum are in Taunton Castle, while museums such as the Weston-super-Mare Museum, the Somerset Rural Life Museum in Glastonbury and the Peat Moors Centre, explore the counties rural history and crafts.
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National rarities are the large marsh grasshopper ( " Stethophyma grossum " ) found on sphagnum moss bogs, the greater silver diving beetle ( " Hydrophilus piceus " ) and the lesser silver diving beetle ( " Hydrochara caraboides " ) which is now confined nationally to the Brue Basin Peat Moors.
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Somerset County Council, the owners of the Peat Moors Centre, closed the centre for budgetary reasons on 31 October 2009 . The former staff hoped to launch a successor to the centre, run by a community interest company, to be known as the'Somerset Lake Village Project'and involving the reconstruction of an Iron Age lake village.
